[Comm-en] WindowMaker Resolutions and Dual Processor compat.

[Comm-en] WindowMaker Resolutions and Dual Processor compat.

[D&J Bouley]

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I have two questions for the group today.

1) I noticed that after installing the new Compact 2.3 distro., WindowMaker 
seems to be at a lower colour resolution than it was before the install.  
There seems to be, what I can only describe as "banding" in the screen 
colours.  It's not only in WM desktop settings, but in all applications that 
are ran using WM.

Is there a setting to increase the number of colours WM will display?

2) A co-worker wishes to move over to Linux.  I'd like to install Compact 2.3 
for him.  Is Compact 2.3 set up to recognize, install under, and utilize 
motherboards with dual processors?

Any advice would be appreciated.
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Re: [Comm-en] WindowMaker Resolutions and Dual Processor compat.

[Michael Shigorin]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 05:51:14PM -0600, D&J Bouley wrote:
> Is there a setting to increase the number of colours WM will display?

grep DefaultColorDepth /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
?

> 2) A co-worker wishes to move over to Linux.  I'd like to
> install Compact 2.3 for him.  Is Compact 2.3 set up to
> recognize, install under, and utilize motherboards with dual
> processors?

Theoretically yes (it has SMP kernel) but practically I've seen
problems like you had to install SMP kernel and module packages
manually.  *sigh* since it's obviously a bug.

> Any advice would be appreciated.

Regarding colours, you can try to modify the aforementioned
setting and restart X (sorry for being so config-oriented, I'm
just too dumb regarding the rest of the tools that's available
and when I know the config, it's more reliable to work out an
"edit this"-like advice rather than figuring out what's working
and what's broken).

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